INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 member countries. Our role is to enable police around the world to work together to make the world a safer place. Our high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support helps meet the growing challenges of fighting crime in the 21st century.

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Our global police communications channels and internationally recognized alert systems allow police around the world to share data instantly and securely. A 24-hour contact point and specialized teams provide targeted support to serious crime or disaster incidents.

Command & Coordination Centre

The Command and Coordination Centre (CCC) is the operations room at INTERPOL, offering a point of contact for any member country seeking urgent police information or facing a crisis situation.

The CCC is manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by staff members of various backgrounds and nationalities who are fluent in several different languages.

With the original operations room based at the General Secretariat in Lyon, France, the CCC has reinforced its global response with the opening of additional sites at the INTERPOL Regional Bureau in ﻿Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), and at the ﻿INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore (2015). In this way, the CCC can better provide 24/7 operational support across time zones while delivering more direct assistance and communications on a regional basis.

Services and activities

The CCC strengthens the reactivity and operational effectiveness of the world's police through the following functions:

Assessing all incoming communications and determining the priority level of each message received by the General Secretariat.

Conducting instant checks on all ﻿INTERPOL databases; distributing and assigning information; and replying to all urgent queries immediately.

Monitoring open sources in order to assess threats and to ensure the full resources of the Organization are ready and available whenever and wherever they may be needed.

Coordinating the exchange of intelligence and information for important operations, and involving specialist units, regional offices and external partners as necessary.

Issuing alerts and publishing ﻿Notices where threats pose an imminent danger. These include Orange Notices to warn police and/or the public about potential threats, and Purple Notices, used to seek or provide information on modi operandi.

Assuming a crisis-management role during serious incidents, such as terrorist attacks, and coordinating specialized assistance in the form of an ﻿Incident Response Team. This brings together experts in various fields, such as forensic science, DNA, drugs, and so on.